One Israeli conscript is under investigation after allegedly dropping a lit cigarette in dry woodland, causing fire to spread rapidly through the forest. Hundreds of homes were damaged and in a rare move, Israel called up military reservists to join overstretched police and firefighters and made use of an global fleet of firefighting aircraft sent by several countries.

You can snag up to a $ 50 gift card on certain SIM-free phones, including iPhone 6 and 6S. iPads LogitechBest Buy: Save $125 on all iPad mini 4 models, starting at $224.99 for the 16GB Wi-Fi only model. Stay tuned to SWR for more news and updates on Black Friday 2016 Cheapest Apple Deals. Target has them on sale: Take 20 percent off all iPod models.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is such a tradition that about three million people watched it on Thursday morning when it started at 9 a.m. and ended around noon. While authorities had said there was no confirmation of any credible threat, they stepped up safety measures in the wake of the July cargo truck attack on a holiday crowd in Nice, France, and a recent posting in an English-language Islamic State group magazine that called the Thanksgiving parade "an excellent target".

In the newly liberated areas, roads are blocked by vehicle wrecks and sandbags, and tanks are deployed on wider streets. Also Sunday, the troops laid siege to the Al-Zohour neighborhood in the eastern section of Mosul. To the west of Mosul, government-sanctioned Shiite militias took full control of the Tal Afar military airfield Friday night, said Jaafar al-Husseini, a spokesman for the influential Hezbollah Brigades.

Thanksgiving: Opens 8 a.m.to 1 p.m. Fed Ex is closed on Thanksgiving with modified service on Black Friday. At the same time, retailers are are trying to figure out whether Thanksgiving generates more overall sales or just takes sales from Black Friday.

Shoppers looking for those deals may have noticed that they didn't have to fight their way through crowds like they may have done in years past. Both prefer braving stores to online sales . Walmart's Cyber Week began at 12:01 a.m. ET on Friday, November 25, and will continue with thousands of online specials every day throughout the week.

Deseat me , which has the tagline " delete your existence " and sounds like something from Black Mirror , asks the user to login using a single Google sign-in. Some sites you might remember, but majority might seem alien. It suggests that the only information shared with them are the various accounts you've subscribed to, which you want to delete.

Academy Award victor and longtime activist Jane Fonda is teaming up with 50 chefs, activists, and volunteers from around the country to feed more than 500 indigenous people and their allies protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline a Thanksgiving Dinner at Standing Rock .

Afghan police said the bomber, who was on foot, had walked into the Shiite mosque in western Kabul where he detonated his explosives among a crowd of worshippers. No group has yet claimed responsibility but militant Sunni fundamentalists such as the Taliban and Islamic State view Shiites as apostates and frequently attack Shiite mosques and public gatherings.

REUTERS/Eric Gaillard A woman leaves the polling booth to vote in the first round of the French center-right presidential primary election in Nice, France , November 20, 2016. "I believe more than ever that the people of France need to come together to turn the page of a disastrous five-year term that has demeaned our country and to block from power the National Front which would lead us into the worst of adventures", he told supporters on Sunday night.

Trump tweets that he is "working hard, even on Thanksgiving", trying to get the Carrier air conditioning company from moving jobs to Mexico . Tweeting from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florda on Thanksgiving Day, Trump said he was working with the company about the planned closure, and that he would soon have word about the talks.

Hussein, grandson of Islam's Prophet, was assassinated in the year 680. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack took place in the Baqir-ul Ulum mosque during a Shiite ceremony marking the traditional mourning period of 40 days since Ashura, one of the holiest days in the Shiite calendar.